Language Stats: compare key data on Malawi & Tanzania

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STAT	Malawi	Tanzania	HISTORY
English status	Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989.	Used by some <a href=/region/ASI>Asian</a> residents as mother tongue. Taught in secondary school and university. Bible 1535-1989.
Languages	Chichewa 57.2% (official), Chinyanja 12.8%, Chiyao 10.1%, Chitumbuka 9.5%, Chisena 2.7%, Chilomwe 2.4%, Chitonga 1.7%, other 3.6%	Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages; <i>note:</i> Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
Linguistic diversity index	0.519 Ranked 84th.	0.965 Ranked 4th. 86% more than Malawi
Major language(s)	English, Chichewa (both official)	English, Swahili

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